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Api. 17, 1923.

G. C. L. WEGUELIN BUREAU Filed March 28 1922 @71:19. jgs

Patented Apr. 17, 1923.]

SATES aan GEORGE CONRAD LUZ WEGUELIN, F CHERTSEY, ENGLAND.

BUREAU.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE CONRAD LUZ IVEGUELIN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Bridge House, Chertsey,

Surrey, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bureaus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bureau of the type having a hinged flap which when open may serve to write on.

According to this invention a bureau is provided below the Hap with two sets of drawers, each set being fast with a door so that when the doors are closed the drawers lie transversely front to front, while the doors are connected to the flap by mechanism such that the opening of the flap opens the doors to :torni a pedestal bureau and shutting the ap closes the doors.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying' drawings in which Figure l is a sectional elevation ot the bureau open and Figure 2 a sectional plan of the saine, while Figures 8 and 4 are similar views of the bureau closed, the flap being removed in Figure 4.

In the drawings, l is the flap, 2 the doors, 3 the drawers fast therewith; 4 are links pivoted to the flap and to slides 5 mounted 0 on guides 6 while a rod 7 is fast with the slides; on therod 7 is a pair of racks 8 gearing with quadrants 9 each of which is screwed on the top of one set of drawers 3.

On opening the flap the links 4 are operated so moving the slides 5, the rod 7 and racks 8 forward; the racks gearing with the quadrants 9 will cause the drawers 3 and the doors 2 fast therewith to turn about the door hinges and move from the position shown in Figures 3 and 4, in which the bureau has the appearance of a cupboard, to that shown in Figures l and 2, i. e. a writing bureau with linee holes.

l. In a bureau, the combination with a flap, of two sets of drawers inovably mounted below the flap, doors, one ot' which is fast to one set or' drawers and the other or' which is fast to the other set of drawers, and mechanism connecting the flap to the doors such that the opening of the tlap moves the doors to open position and the drawers to accessible position, while the closing of the fla-p moves the drawers to a position in which they lie transversely front to front and closes the doors.

2. In a bureau, the combination with a flap, of two sets of drawers movably mounted below the flap, doors, one of which is fast to one set of drawers and the other of which is tast to the other set of drawers, quadrants connected to the drawers, racks meshing with said quadrants, slides with which the racks are mounted to move, and links connecting the flap to said slides, whereby the opening of the flap moves the doors to open position and the closing of the iiap closes the doors.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name this 16th day of March, 1922.

GEORGE CONRAD LUZ WEGUELIN. 

